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Water pollution affects life and ecosystems. BOD takes 5 days and needs labs. Our bio-electrochemical sensors detect pollution up to 5000 times faster (1 sec to 1 min). Suitable for industries, wastewater treatment, and natural waters.
Despite the regular water quality monitoring for surface waters being entrenched in legislation there are numerous problems and challenges associated with use of the conventional methods which are usualy performend only once or two times per month for each water body:1) There is a lag until results are available (samaple collection, transportation to lab and 1 to 5 days for obtaning data), hence environmental damage can occur before the data is available;2) the tests are are time consuming, and expensive. They olso involve chemicals that need careful disposal;3) Because of point 1) and point 2) monitoring itslef have significant CO2 footprint whitout being efficient anought.It is clear that a move from traditional laboratory testing to in-situ (real-time) monitoring would help to alleviate some of the problems outlined above. It would also improve spatial resolution of the monitoring with direct benefit to basin managers, water companies and legislators alike.
This hazard creates water stress and water resources management.
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Water pollution is one of the factors affecting our quality of life and crucial for the organisms in the water ecosystems. Maintainingthe aquatic ecosystems health and their ability to involve CO2 into its natural cycles is important in sense of the environmental andclimate challenges we are already facing. In this regard, the legislative framework and the regulations requires and higher standardsin water management. To address the above, the industry and the environmental agencies are demanding better instruments forwater quality monitoring, which could provide high-resolution data. However, the conventional approaches often fail in this andsample collection, transportation and the specific chemical reagents used for analysts generate addition CO2 footprint. Last but notleast – this time demanding chain of process involved in the conventional water quality monitoring could easily miss water pollutionevents and sudden peaks of the parameters. In the scope of the climate change, the new dynamics in natural water cycle requiresnew methods to replace conventional approach and address the new challenges.
ENOVA Co-founders started development of the proposed technologist as university researchers. The first steps towards commercialization were supported by EIT Climate-KIC accelerator after starting ENOVA H2O ltd. The company received a grant from the EIT Climate-KIC Accelerator. The project included key activities related to the research & development of the water monitoring technology and development of a sound business strategy. After demonstration of the first prototypes, in 2018 ENOVA H20 won the title of “best starting enterprise” in the category Water of the Start-up Europe Awards, funded by the European Commission. In addition, in 2021, the company received no-strings attached investment from Chivas Ventures for development and market presentation of our first full commercialized product ENOVA InstaSense 1, a portable device for analyzing organic pollutants in water. The core technology which will be demonstrated whithin the project is under patent evaluation (№ 112436 / 21.10.2021)
Each analysis method has scope and limitations. In this sense, the approach developed by us could be considered as applicable mainly to waters contaminated with biodegradable organic pollutants such as rivers, lakes and wetlands or wastewater before and during their treatment in Waste Water Treatment Plants. The application of bio-electrochemical sensors could be limited in specific cases involving monitoring of ultra-pure and deionized water streams such as the water conditioned for use in the heat exchange equipment in power plants or other industries.
Water pollution affects life and ecosystems. BOD takes 5 days and needs labs. Our bio-electrochemical sensors detect pollution up to 5000 times faster (1 sec to 1 min). Suitable for industries, wastewater treatment, and natural waters.
Despite the regular water quality monitoring for surface waters being entrenched in legislation there are numerous problems and challenges associated with use of the conventional methods which are usualy performend only once or two times per month for each water body:1) There is a lag until results are available (samaple collection, transportation to lab and 1 to 5 days for obtaning data), hence environmental damage can occur before the data is available;2) the tests are are time consuming, and expensive. They olso involve chemicals that need careful disposal;3) Because of point 1) and point 2) monitoring itslef have significant CO2 footprint whitout being efficient anought.It is clear that a move from traditional laboratory testing to in-situ (real-time) monitoring would help to alleviate some of the problems outlined above. It would also improve spatial resolution of the monitoring with direct benefit to basin managers, water companies and legislators alike.
This hazard creates water stress and water resources management.
The business plan for this innovation has been evaluated by The Funding Company and it is considered to be ready for investment.
The main components of the system have been tested separately, and an initial integration exercise has been conducted.
Water pollution is one of the factors affecting our quality of life and crucial for the organisms in the water ecosystems. Maintainingthe aquatic ecosystems health and their ability to involve CO2 into its natural cycles is important in sense of the environmental andclimate challenges we are already facing. In this regard, the legislative framework and the regulations requires and higher standardsin water management. To address the above, the industry and the environmental agencies are demanding better instruments forwater quality monitoring, which could provide high-resolution data. However, the conventional approaches often fail in this andsample collection, transportation and the specific chemical reagents used for analysts generate addition CO2 footprint. Last but notleast – this time demanding chain of process involved in the conventional water quality monitoring could easily miss water pollutionevents and sudden peaks of the parameters. In the scope of the climate change, the new dynamics in natural water cycle requiresnew methods to replace conventional approach and address the new challenges.
ENOVA Co-founders started development of the proposed technologist as university researchers. The first steps towards commercialization were supported by EIT Climate-KIC accelerator after starting ENOVA H2O ltd. The company received a grant from the EIT Climate-KIC Accelerator. The project included key activities related to the research & development of the water monitoring technology and development of a sound business strategy. After demonstration of the first prototypes, in 2018 ENOVA H20 won the title of “best starting enterprise” in the category Water of the Start-up Europe Awards, funded by the European Commission. In addition, in 2021, the company received no-strings attached investment from Chivas Ventures for development and market presentation of our first full commercialized product ENOVA InstaSense 1, a portable device for analyzing organic pollutants in water. The core technology which will be demonstrated whithin the project is under patent evaluation (№ 112436 / 21.10.2021)
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